Hi, I’ve been continuing to attach and wait for the drive/volume to mount, no mount showing on desktop or in Disk Utility. Numerous attempts at this in both USB ports - still nothing showing.
I decided just for safety I would make a copy of the two Photos Libraries (~500GB total) on this drive over to my external drive and make sure they’re not corrupted. That finished overnight and this morning they open up fine on my MBP and all photos/videos present in both libraries. I turned off TM for my MBP in the mean time during this process. Whilst I haven’t done this yet. I was thinking I will just erase and reformat the drive, copy the library files back and then reconnect. No big deal with this except I am certain Time Machine will see it all as new file path (reformatted drive) or files and then create another ~500GB into the backup file for what is unchanged data. The alternative to this is to erase/reformat the drive and then restore the library’s files from Jo’s TM backup sometime prior to the fault occurring Saturday eve. I think TM would then set about backing it up again so same outcome. Before I go down this path, any last comments about how I could recognise this drive on Jo’s MBP? Any commands in Terminal that might help? At least WCE followed through yesterday, one good outcome for the weekend... Dockers did look good for the first half. Regards Pete > On 10 Mar 2019, at 3:23 pm, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does anything appear under ‘external’ in Disk Utility left column? > > > Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > > >> On 10 Mar 2019, at 2:50 pm, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Just had a quick look with Disk Utility. When the USB is plugged in, nothing >> appears down the left side of DU. No volume represented at all - not even >> greyed out. >> >> Regards >> >> >> Pete >> >>> On 10 Mar 2019, at 2:28 pm, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The volume of the external drive will be grayed out until the Disk is >>> ‘verified’ and then ‘Repaired’. But the external drive should show as it’s >>> the volume which hasn’t been ejected correctly. >>> >>> Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB >>> >>> >>>> On 10 Mar 2019, at 2:17 pm, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Ok ha ha ha thanks for that Ronni. I had opened Disk Utility but the >>>> volume doesn’t show in the first instance to attempt a repair. But I will >>>> keep trying to get it to mount. >>>> >>>> I am off to Rushton Park to see the WCE V Dockers Derby soon and will sit >>>> down with a wine to have a crack at it again. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> >>>> Pete >>>> >>>>> On 10 Mar 2019, at 1:49 pm, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Peter, >>>>> >>>>> This will take many try’s, but persist with it. You might need a glass or >>>>> two of wine or beer Peter. >>>>> >>>>> 1. Connect the external drive to your wife’s MacBook >>>>> 2. Open Disk Utility > in the left column, select the volume of the >>>>> external drive >>>>> 3. Click ‘Repair Disk’ >>>>> You will keep receiving the Error: ‘Disk Utility can’t repair this Disk >>>>> etc because the drive has not been ejected properly’ >>>>> But keep hitting Repair Disk until it eventually runs correctly through >>>>> and completes the process of repairing the drive. >>>>> 4. Disconnect the Drive correctly and remove it from the USB port. >>>>> >>>>> Let’s know if it gets rid of the Notification notice when the external is >>>>> connected again to the MacBook. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Ronni >>>>> >>>>> Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On 10 Mar 2019, at 12:22 pm, Peter Crisp <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi folks, last night my daughter inadvertently when moving my wife’s >>>>>> MacBook with external drive (Photos library) attached, unbeknown to her >>>>>> had caused a glitch in the connection to the MBP - probably just wiggled >>>>>> the USB lead. When I went to look at it later there was a notification >>>>>> “Disk not ejected properly”. Of course she had nothing at all to do with >>>>>> it, it was the fairies. Anyway, after that I tried to get the MBP to >>>>>> recognise the external drive and it wont recognise it. It wont mount to >>>>>> my wife’s MBP. It mounts fine to my own MBP and content is seen as >>>>>> expected. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have done the PRAM and SMC controller resets and numerous reboots and >>>>>> still no luck mounting the drive in either of the two USB ports. >>>>>> >>>>>> Any tips on this please? >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Pete >>>>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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